Matt Groening Quotes

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

Niall: Help! Louis: Did anyone hear that? Niall: Help!! Louis: SOMEBODY NEEDS HELP! RAAH! (Pulls open shirt and has Superman shirt underneath) Superman is here!!

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

Dear Jesus, do something.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy

Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

Pray to god someone prays for me